Two Early Lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch (Translated Texts for Historians, 59) (Volume 59) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846318831 ISBN 13: 9781846318832

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Severos, patriarch of Antioch, was one of the most important ecclesiastical figures of the first half of the sixth century, a time when the reception, or not, of the Council of Chalcedon (451) was still a matter of much dispute. As an opponent of the Council, Severos had to flee from his patriarchal see to Egypt in 518 when Justin came to the throne and imperial policy changed. Summoned by Justinian to Constantinople in 536, he won over Anthimos, the patriarch of Constantinople, but in the reaction to this unexpected turn of events, both he and Anthimos were anathematised at a synod in the capital and his writings were condemned to be burnt. Regarded as a schismatic by the Greek and Latin Church, he is commemorated as a saint in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and so is only in Syriac translations from Greek that the majority of his voluminous writings are preserved. The first of the two biographies translated in this volume was written by Zacharias, a fellow law student in Beirut. The purpose of the wo

About this title

About the Author:

Sebastian Brock is Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Brian Fitzgerald is an independent scholar.

Review:

"This volume is a compendious, user-friendly, scholarly tool which will be much appreciated by those engaged in Syriac studies, history, theology, hagiography, and the post-Chalcedonian period, and it will be a welcome addition to the Liverpool series."--Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846318831
• ISBN 13: 9781846318832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175